We investigate a scheme for making leptogenesis by means of the CP violating decays of the seesaw Majorana neutrinos proposed by Fukugita and Yanagida. However, in order to avoid the wash-out of the produced lepton number we propose the production of the Majorana neutrinos to occur non-thermally and sufficiently late. After this time, in consequence, the B − L (baryon minus lepton) quantum numb...

This article reports part of the invited talk delivered by the author at the “International Conference on Majorana Legacy" held at the Department of Physics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, on 5 and 6 Octorber, 2006: Conference organized for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana; probably the brightest Italian theoretician of ...

The Majorana code is an example of a stabilizer code where the quantum information is stored in a system supporting well-separated Majorana bound states (MBSs). We focus on one-dimensional realizations of the Majorana code, as well as networks of such structures, and investigate their lifetime when coupled to a paritypreserving thermal environment. We apply the Davies prescription, a standard m...

statistics of dislocation defects in a Z[subscript N] rotor model. " Physical Review B 86.16 (2012). Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Non-Abelian st...

I am privileged to be in this interesting place honoring Ettore Majorana. Of course I have had no personal contact with him — he disappeared before I appeared. However, it is surprising, that I did not encounter his name nor his achievements during my physics education. He is hardly mentioned in the usual textbooks, at least in the American ones. This is a great loss! To me it was a special los...

Submitted for the MAR11 Meeting of The American Physical Society Effects of Interactions on a Topological Phase Exhibiting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Wires MILES STOUDENMIRE, JASON ALICEA, UC Irvine — The ability to create and manipulate Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems is not only of fundamental interest for understanding topological phases but also provides a realistic route to...

We analyse the dependence of the rates of the LFV charged lepton decays µ → e + γ, τ → e+γ, τ → µ+γ (l i → l j +γ) and their ratios, predicted in the class of SUSY theories with seesaw mechanism of ν-mass generation and soft SUSY breaking with universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale, on the Majorana CP-violation phases in the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix and the " leptogenesis " CP-violat...

The τ -lepton dominance in the one-loop renormalization-group equations (RGEs) of neutrinos sets a cute criterion to parametrize the 3 × 3 lepton flavor mixing matrix U : its elements U3i (for i = 1, 2, 3) should be as simple as possible. Such a novel parametrization is different from the “standard” one used in the literature and can lead to greatly simplified RGEs for three mixing angles and t...

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